page caching for multilingual site

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Hello,

I would like to cache the pages of my website.

My website is available in 2 languages. When you switch from one language to another, the URL remains the same, but the articles are displayed in the appropriate language.

So, if I enable caching, the .html page /content/details/123.html is written on the disk, and is accessed next time the same URL is accessed.

The problem is that if the page is first accessed in French, and then accessed in English, the page will be displayed in French (from the cache) the second time too.

Does anyone have a clue to help me find a solution?

Thanks in advance for your help. Thomas.

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Thomas,

   > Does anyone have a clue to help me find a solution?

I'd go with the obvious one: include the language code in the url. Without this, pages would not be bookmarkable/shareable.

Alain

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Yes, I would agree. As the cool kids say, that would be the RESTful way to do it. What are you doing now, storing the language in the session?

Switching to a URL-based solution should be painless. Just change your routes to something like mapconnect ':controller/:action/:language/:id' and change your actions accordingly.

Alain Ravet wrote:

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I'll try something like that. Thanks for your help.

Thomas.